Industries Served
Transforming Industries Through Microbial Innovation and Contract Research
Tailored Biological Solutions and Advanced Analytics for Global Industries
At Avecom, we bridge the gap between environmental challenges and sustainable biological solutions. Whether you are navigating complex soil remediation, optimizing industrial wastewater processes, mitigating marine corrosion, or developing next-generation bioplastics, Avecom provides the microbial products and Contract Research Organization (CRO) services required to de-risk and accelerate your projects. From off-the-shelf microbial cultures like ABIL and Multidechlorobac to bespoke molecular analyses and pilot-scale feasibility studies, explore how we support your specific sector below.
Soil Remediation & Engineering
The Challenge: Consultancies and remediation contractors face complex contaminations involving recalcitrant compounds such as BTEX, VOCl, naphthalene, chlorinated solvents, and heavy metals in both soil and groundwater.
Our Solutions:
- Products: We produce highly specialized bacterial cultures, including Multidechlorobac (MDB), specifically engineered for the rapid anaerobic bioremediation of chlorinated solvents.
- CRO Services: Avecom conducts comprehensive aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation testing in soil and groundwater. We offer bench-to-pilot scale feasibility studies for optimazing soil remediation, (waste)water treatment and biogas production.
Water & Wastewater Treatment
The Challenge: Industrial facilities, aquaculture operations, and municipal authorities struggle with stringent effluent limits, recalcitrant Chemical Oxygen Demand (rCOD), Dissolved Organic Nitrogen (rDON), and nitrification bottlenecks.
Our Solutions:
- Products: ABIL® is our premier nitrifying bacterial consortium, designed for rapid ammonium removal and system shock recovery in high-ammonia wastewater and aquaculture systems. We also supply targeted nutritional blends like Nutreact.
- CRO Services: We design and operate pilot-scale aerobic and anaerobic wastewater treatment setups. Our laboratories routinely perform Level 1 OECD degradation testing, nitrification inhibition tests, biogas production potential and sludge characterization.
Food Industry
The Challenge: The conventional approach to food processing waste—destroying valuable carbon and nitrogen through aerobic wastewater treatment or low-yield anaerobic digestion—is an economic failure. Food processors, breweries, and agricultural facilities generate vast quantities of low-value, diluted side streams and coproducts. Disposing of these streams incurs heavy operational expenditures (OPEX) and represents a massive, untapped biochemical resource. The industry mandate is no longer waste mitigation, but total resource upcycling.
Our Solutions:
Platform Developments (such as Valpromic): Avecom leads the transition from waste treatment to biomanufacturing. Through our proprietary Valpromic platform, we engineer processes that upcycle these low-value, diluted side streams into high-value microbial protein (Single Cell Protein) and premium biochemicals. We convert sunk wastewater costs into profitable coproduct revenue streams.
- Collaborative Research & Innovation (Agriloop, Biotech4Food): Our commercial capabilities are directly fueled by our deep integration into premier European research consortiums. Through active participation in cutting-edge projects such as Agriloop (developing eco-efficient bioconversion of agricultural residues into high-value bio-based products) and Biotech4Food, Avecom pioneers next-generation bioprocessing pathways. These research activities ensure that our platform developments and CRO services are built on the absolute frontier of biotechnology, providing clients with early access to validated, highly scalable valorization technologies.
CRO Services: We execute rigorous techno-economic and biological feasibility studies to determine the valorization potential of your specific residual streams. Our services include bench-to-pilot scale fermentation testing, substrate characterization, process optimization for biomass yield, and downstream nutritional profiling of the generated microbial protein.
Maritime, Offshore & Infrastructure
The Challenge: Asset owners and offshore contractors battle structural degradation caused by Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) and require rigorous testing of marine sediments.
Our Solutions:
- CRO Services: Avecom specializes in advanced molecular analyses to identify MIC agents in closed-loop systems, pipelines, and sea sediments. Utilizing tools like Quantarray MIC, we identify specific corrosive bacterial strains, assess post-flushing operational safety, and characterize heavy metal profiles in marine and estuarine matrices.
Pulp, Paper & Consumer Goods
The Challenge: The processing of wood, pulp, and organic consumer goods generates complex waste streams that require biological valorization and safe effluent discharge.
Our Solutions:
- CRO Services: Comprehensive effluent sample analysis, aerobic and anaerobic Level 1 testing, and process intensification studies. We execute customized feasibility studies to evaluate the biological degradation and valorization of unique industrial side-streams.
Chemicals, Bioplastics & Advanced Materials
The Challenge: Chemical manufacturers and polymer innovators must validate the environmental fate of new materials, assess the biodegradability of novel bioplastics, and manage toxic byproducts.
Our Solutions:
- Products: Custom microbial inocula and stabilization additives (such as Stabilox) for process control and biological seeding.
- CRO Services: We provide specialized biodegradability testing for bioplastics and polymers in soil and groundwater. We also offer feasibility testing at lab and pilot scale for wastewater treatment optimization and process process-water analyses.
Our Services
Avecom is a Belgian-based expert in Microbial Resource Management and excels not only in wastewater treatment, digestion processes, and soil remediation but also in the specialized field of microbial fermentation. Our qualified team of environmental and industrial engineers, technicians, and lab technicians works to steer and optimize microbial processes according to the needs of our customers.
Our fully equipped laboratories and production facility enable us to offer a range of services, including lab- and pilot-scale feasibility tests, R&D from preliminary lab testing to proven pilot-scale applicability, and small-scale contract manufacturing. We take pride in our state-of-the-art labs and multiple pilot facilities,
which allow us to seamlessly transition our innovations from the lab to commercial-scale projects.
As a trusted partner with extensive experience, Avecom has successfully introduced numerous groundbreaking and sustainable products and processes to the market. Within our diverse portfolio, we proudly present a range of patented products that encompass not only environmental remediation but also the field of biomass fermentation. These innovative solutions have proven their effectiveness in enhancing the performance of wastewater treatment plants, digesters, in-situ CVOC degradation in soils, and other related applications. By leveraging our expertise in microbial fermentation, we are able to provide unique and tailored solutions that contribute to both circularity and industrial efficiency.